Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
ORGANIZATIONAL TASKS
Several tasks and measures have been accomplished for successful implementation of
UL with RAUL extension:
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The Lab administration has been set up as follows:
- Faculty Lab Administrator, a faculty member — responsible for overall planning and
administrating of the lab
- Managing team consisting of two faculty members — responsible for the use of the
lab resources
- ATS specialist — responsible for the hardware and software installation and access
privileges control — as the Lab Administrator and the Managing Team gain more
experience in lab supervision, they are becoming increasingly involved in sharing
with ATS the responsibilities of assigning and managing students' access privi
leges (direct and remote) in accordance with the university network access policy
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Lab hardware and software are purchased, installed, and implemented in courses;
currently, we are in the process of expanding microservers to install Oracle 9i
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The administration of the Unix Lab has adopted and implemented a plan for periodical
hands-on training workshops on using the lab resources for faculty and staff
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The following courses have been modified to take advantage of the new lab facilities:
- Java Programming
- C++ Programming
- Database Design
- Application Programs and Database Connectivity
- Unix Operating System
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Two courses are added to the curriculum:
- Linux Operating System
- Oracle DBA with Solaris
The RAUL has already proved itself as an indispensable resource for distance-learning
courses that require a dedicated microserver per each individual or collective user. The scope
of RAUL can further be extended in the future to support such server-centered, “server
administration” courses as Web Server Administration and Application Server Administra-
tion. The following section provides a brief review of available remote administration tools
and applications.
Remote Administrative Tools and Applications
Remote access and files transfer are used for a variety of educational and business
applications: from traditional business databases to music archives. For example, students
of the University of Washington (2002) are provided with Remote Access and File Transfers
to the Computer Music Lab based on Linux machines.
UNIGIS (2002) is a worldwide network of educational institutions, which offers dis-
tance-learning courses in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It includes associated
universities in 14 countries. Among others, the topics covered in the UNIGIS courses include
Spatial Data Modeling, Database Theory, and Data Acquisition and Quality.
Satellite data and image processing for studying oceans is implemented at Stanford
University (2002) as a remote Lab for Satellite Remote Sensing of the Oceans. Students can
start an X-session to connect and do practices on the UNIX server.
